Crime and Punishment

Last summer, Britain was happened a big riot, this riot from London spread other major cities of Britain, such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. About the situation of riot that some young people fired the trash can in the street and threw bottles and bricks to the police, some young people used sticks to smashed the shop windows, some young people was fired shopping mall and hit stores of glass. And it also have some young people burned many cars near the road. At the same time, many young people were robbed in some shopping centre. It brought a serious impact for the UK. And from this information, we can see the participants of riot are almost young people.

Why they will join this riot? In my opinion, I consider that there are three reason lead to young people join this riot. The first one is lack of parental control and social impact. Due to parents busy for their job and they have not time to care for children, lead to their children lack control ability and do not know what is right and what is wrong. In addition to the care of parents, in the society, it has some bad example to affect the behaviour of young people and let they lost themselves. The second reason is poverty. Due to the poverty, lead to many teenager did not acquire higher education and Social equality of treatment, even the survival are too difficult. Therefore, in the end survival and inequality will turn to crime. The last reason is race discrimination. At present, although encourage racial equality in the world, however it also have some place exist racial inequality. Like this riot, the root is London police kill a black young people and issues in the riots.

For the riots, I think give some punishment is necessary. However, how to punish is not important, the important is how to transform them and let them have a nice future because some of them were quite young and others hadn't been in trouble before. Consequently, in addition to the fine, corporal punishment and community service, it also can provide some lecture for them and teach them what is right, and improve their cognitive ability. At the same time, the government can help them come back to school and as far as possible solve their poverty. I think, give them a opportunity is better than punishment them.

Source:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/29/riots-deeper-roots-poverty-alienation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/aug/11/uk-riots-magistrates-court-list

http://publicintelligence.net/london-riots-photos-august-2011/